• Discovery. Not everything starts visible. search, forage, survey, or look can uncover hidden items and make them legal targets.
• Mobs. Creatures follow their nature: herbivores browse, carnivores hunt. Defeating one usually drops things to collect or craft with.
• Things. Items grant passive power while carried and combine through crafting.

Each world is guarded by a World Boss; the portal onward stays sealed until it falls. The deepest world is the frontier. Slay its boss, and the hero who lands the killing blow earns a one-time right to meditate world ! <vision> and forge the next world from their imagination. Every frontier conquered births the next. The chain never ends.

• To return, the voters choose meditate live ! <reason>. The reason must feel sincere within the fiction; it faces the same AI judge you can try in the growth chapter.
• The experience cost equals the hero's current level. Can't afford it? The death sticks.
• Permadeath is possible. Bank experience before you court danger.